After his campaign in the Ardennes nobody could expect him to win. This is pretty much the best result we could hope for, I'm not denying that. But we need to see something more, we need to see some endurance in road stages, which is what he's been lacking in the past couple of months.

Moser was interviewed during the week and he said he completely messed up his preparation for the first part of the season. He thought he was already in top shape after winning Strade Bianche so he missed some days of training and didn't work much on endurance.

He said he's learning from his mistakes and he'll work harder next winter. He's confident his second part of the season will be much better.

Excellent ride today. Route doesn't look so hard from now on. I'm hoping he'll try to win a stage but a decent GC placement is also a possibility.

While I believe Moser might surprise us already this year, I fear he might run into the usual youthful struggle with managing training and the desire to "live the hype".

Having said that I really hope he'll hang on to Sagans wheels in much the same way as the old sly fox Evans does, and stays in the top 10 for many of the flatter stages.. that'll earn him some spots in the Tour de Suisse and possibly Tour de France, while saving some energy for the tougher GC stages.

Pippo_San wrote:Well he didn't look VERY good on that climb to Crans Montana did he? Yet, considering where he was during the last race (i.e. nowhere) it's a promising sign.

Not looking great, I agree, but riders kept being dropped and he was always there. And he was brilliant in the last km after Mollema attacked. I thought he was gonna collalpse after being in the red for such a long time, but he's clearly in great shape.